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View & Purchase Raintree Products How to Grow & Use Our Edible Plants & Regional Growing Info. Pollination Charts Raintree Workshops Landscape Design Raintree Recipes Raintree Helps George Washington! Request a Catalog Message From Raintree's Founder Customer Service About Secure Ordering How to Contact Us Customer Compliments Meet Our Staff About Raintree Visit Raintree's new Garden Center Map To Raintree Search Raintree Raintree Home	UNDERSTANDING APPLE POLLINATION • For pollination you need to have two different apple varieties! Apples with the exception of the Queen Cox self fertile don’t pollinize themselves. Apples also don’t pollinize other fruits! •All the apples listed in red are triploids. These will not pollinate other varieties or themselves. However they are pollinized by other apple varieties. So Gravenstein which is a triploid won’t pollinize any other variety. However it can be pollinized by another variety that blooms near the same time. • How to read the lists! We have listed the apple varieties we offer from the earliest bloomer which is WSU AxP, to the latest bloomer which is King Edward. • The EARLY SEASON bloomers and the LATE SEASON bloomers won’t cross pollinate because their bloom time is too far apart and the early varieties will be done blooming before the late ones start. • It is best to pick a pollinizer in the same half of the total list. The closer the two varieties are in bloom time, the more their bloom will overlap and the more likely you will get pollination and therefore fruit set. • What is important is to choose a pollinizer that is not too far in bloom time from your variety. For instance Liberty and Dayton are close enough to count on for pollination whereas Liberty and Fiesta are far enough away to often work but not always. Zestar and King Edward would rarely if ever overlap in bloom.While the bloom order stays generally similiar in different parts of the nation and in different years, the actual bloom dates change year to year depending on the weather. EARLY SEASON WSU AxP Gravenstein Zestar Brown Russett Alkemene William's Pride   EARLY-MID SEASON Louisa Pink Cloud NY 75414 Sunrise Scarlet Sentinel Dolgo Liberty Silken Centennial Sansa Akane MID SEASON Enterprise Jonagold Pink Pearl Golden Sentinel Belmac North Pole Rebella Sweet Sixteen Resi Red Boskoop Shizuka Greensleeves Beni Shogun Corail Dayton Ashmead's Hudson's Releika Freyburg Sept. Wonder Rubinette Karmijn MID-LATE SEASON Hatsuaki Red Flesh Red Cort Michelin Shay Honeycrisp Foxwhelp Tsugaru Melrose Queen Cox Goldstar Kingston Black Wolf River Fiesta Ellison's Dabinette LATE SEASON King Bramley King Edward       APPLE RIPENING ORDER AUGUST Dolgo Crab Centennial William's Pride Zestar Pristine Sansa Sunrise EARLY OCTOBER Belmac G. Sentinel Honeycrisp King Edward Liberty King NY75414 Corail King NY 75414 Releika Corail Brown Snout Rubinette Spartan EARLY SEPTEMBER Almata Akane Silken Ellison's Orange Gravenstein Roger's Mac Queen Cox MID OCTOBER Jonagold Karmijn Sweet Sixteen Ashmead's Kingston Gold Star Foxwelp Shizuka Roxbury MID-LATE SEPTEMBER Chehalis Dayton Fiesta North Pole Wolf River Beni Shogun Sept. Wonder Rebella Greensleeves Resi Tsugaru Scarlet Sentinel Shay Red Cort Alkemene LATE OCTOBER Dabinett Evereste Melrose Enterprise Boskoop Hudson's Brown Russett *Later ripening apples are usually better keepers! RETURN TO THE POLLINATION CHART INDEX RETURN TO HOW TO GROW & USE RAINTREE'S EDIBLE PLANTS VIEW & PURCHASE RAINTREE PRODUCTS | | HOME | SEARCH RAINTREE | info@raintreenursery.com - 360.496.6400